Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rehabilitation — from the leader they could not wait to get rid of because he represented high taxes , inflation and military failure ( over Iran ) , to the president everyone loves to cite as the model elder statesman -has been remarkable . |
| 2 | In its place , the government is to set up a " new wide ranging review " of how local authorities could help clear up polluted sites , and of whether they had adequate powers and finances to carry out the task . |
| 3 | Regardless of whether they include direct ancestors or not , the carpoids do serve to demonstrate the likelihood of evolutionary links between chordates — including vertebrates — and the echinoderms . |
| 4 | So will the determination of whether they have other rights ( for example voting ) or of whether their preferential dividend , is cumulative ( in the sense that if passed in one year it must nevertheless be paid in a later one before any subordinate class receives a dividend ) or non-cumulative ( in the sense that the dividend once passed , is lost for ever ) . |
| 5 | All of these findings remained broadly similar irrespective of whether we analysed total warmth towards parties and party leaders , total ratings for the parties ' performance on issues , or total inclinations towards voting for all three leading parties ( Table 8.8 ) . |
| 6 | Co-producer Robert Relea hit back : ‘ It 's not as if we like working nights . ’ |
| 7 | First , we all have to live and act as if we were sure and as if we had reliable knowledge . |
| 8 | We act and will continue to act as if we have free will , whether our actions are determined or not . |
| 9 | The predatory spirits , on the other hand , are described as if they bore actual malice toward humans . |
| 10 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 11 | Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions . |
| 12 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 13 | Then , as if to break the spell , the sheep dogs began to bark frenziedly and the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger . |
| 14 | But at all times I would prefer them to act as if they have non-speaking parts . |
| 15 | He is a man of about fifty-five , with a quick ‘ nervous manner , as if he had pressing engagements elsewhere , which seems unlikely : the university has run out of steam and its faculty members are all jumping ship , if they can . |
| 16 | He could imagine Galland , a small man who looked as if he had permanent indigestion . |
| 17 | It is as if he glimpses absolute Truth in and through particular instances of truth . |
| 18 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 19 | He leaned forward once again , subjecting her to the unnerving illusion of being pinned by his shadow , trapped and oppressed by it , as if it carried physical weight , composed of all that he felt for her , lust and contempt . |
| 20 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 21 | Dalgliesh thought : Why is he behaving as if I need tactful handling , as if I 'm suffering from a private grief ? |
| 22 | Do n't know what she had toothpastes for cos she 'd false teeth . |
| 23 | MESSIEST DESK : Viscount Weymouth 's was reminiscent of what the world must have been like before they invented waste-paper baskets . |
| 24 | In reply , Freud considers the rationalist argument that murder is not engaged in because it makes social life impossible if anyone is allowed to murder anyone else . |
| 25 | The study of the voice what we say and how we say it I then introduced you to if you like advanced body language and based on the work that Marion North did and rather than take an individual movement of the body we took a cluster and how many aspects where there to cluster I wonder there were three were n't there . |
| 26 | Do n't use extra lights unless you have to because they make small spaces very hot very quickly and they can make a classroom recording a very uncomfortable experience for everyone . |
| 27 | Additional relieving officers were to be appointed to keep close watch on paupers , to enquire of neighbours and relatives as to whether they had undisclosed earnings or , in the case of single women , regular male friends capable of supporting them . |
| 28 | It is now a matter of personal preference as to whether you use loose tea of speciality tea-bags . |
| 29 | If a person walks into a room and says ‘ bonjour ’ , our decoding process and actions will depend on whether we understand sufficient French to decode the message successfully and reply appropriately . |
| 30 | Where … as in a mature legal system , we have a system of rules which includes a rule of recognition so that the status of a rule as a member of the system now depends on whether it satisfies certain criteria provided by the rule of recognition , this brings with it a new application of the word ‘ exist ’ . |